Nonlinear pulse propagation in semiconductors: hole burning within a homogeneous line

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 476-479

  Forstner J ^a,b   Knorr, A ^a,b   Koch, S W ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; NONLINEAR OPTICS;

NONLINEAR PULSE PROPAGATION; OPTICAL PULSE PROPAGATION; SEMICONDUCTOR EXCITON RESONANCE; SPECTRAL HOLE BURNING;

SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS;

EID: 0343026507     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.476     Document Type: Article

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